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The aboriginals, indigenous to the Canadian land carried a peaceful lifestyle within their own tribes and respected the ways of nature. Leaving a place barren and destroyed simply as an act of greed was just not in alliance with their nature. Similarly the na’vi people from the movie avatar possess the same traits as the Canadian aboriginals. On the other hand were the Europeans who came and swept away every aspect of the aboriginal’s lifestyle, leading the aboriginals to a gloomy life filled with despair and constant struggles. Similar to these Europeans were the humans from the mining operation in the movie.

As you might have figures by now, this paper seeks to compare and state the similarities and differences between the movie Avatar by James Cameron and the aboriginals who came to Canada 500 years ago. The first obvious similarity between the movie and the aboriginals was the bond that both the na’vi people from the movie and the aboriginals shared with the nature that surrounds them. The first nation’s peoples are caretakers of Mother Earth. First Nations peoples’ have a spe...